Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other major reason for dissatisfaction, the Teachers Union study indicates, is the utter lack of any quantitative work standard. While the faculty member's work week averaged 50 hours, with instructors' estimates of over 58 hours bolstering this figure, over 40 percent could not answer the question of what is considered full-time work in their department...
...confusion on this time question is accentuated, the report states, by the fact that the answers of the remaining 60 percent ranged from "the hours of the day minus that which is required for eating, sleeping, and traveling" to "what you can get away with if you want...
...same time, the staff of the publication in question released a statement expressing "surprise that the Faculty finds itself unable to grant final clearance to the New Student," in view of the fact that "the staff has answered all questions put to it by Dean Watson and will be glad to answer any further question which University officials may have." The release noted also that continued postponement of the Faculty decision seriously hampers circulation chances of the New Student in the University. "We are always glad to cooperate with the committee, and we hope that the present restriction will soon...
...drama became an important part of American culture in the 1880s have they failed to entangle themselves in theatrical activities of one sort or another. Before this period Harvard had some 250 years in which to lave in the Puritan tradition. In the seventeenth century, there had been no question of the impropriety of plays--their immorality was never doubted. Like singing, dramatics were not then against the College laws, but as Samuel Eliot Morison has pointed out in his history of Harvard University, "this negative evidence is double-edged, for it may only mean that there was not enough...
...something more worthwhile than the fact-filled chemistry course, and the G.E. department has a staff of brilliant teachers. The infant program has so far been successful, and should be more so if too much is not demanded of it too soon. General Education itself is still a dark question--the Committee has not yet opened full throttle, and even when it does, obtaining a well-rounded knowledge will still depend largely on the individual's own wisdom and personal initiative...